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South Coast · Accidents

Accidents, 1938

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Motor Traffic Accidents

The Bega District News · Thursday 28 April 1938 · page 1

One of the most comprehensive surveys made of motor traffic accidents is that conducted annually by the Travellers’ Insurance Co. of U…

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Motor Accidents

The South Coast Register · Thursday 28 April 1938 · page 1

Driving a car round Morton’s Corner, at Bomaderry, on Monday night last, Mr. Mac Gudgeon had the bad luck to meet with an accident…

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Accidents at Berry

The Nowra Leader · Friday 29 April 1938 · page 11

William [?]onteith aged 12. son of Mr. and Mrs. Monteith, of Berry, is at present an inmate of the David Berry Hospital, as a result of an…

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Chapter of Accidents

The South Coast Register · Thursday 12 May 1938 · page 5

Several accidents were reported over the week-end, perhaps the most serious of which [?] Mr. Basil Emery, of Brundee, son of Mr. Ern…

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Motor Collision. Action for Damages

The Bega District News · Thursday 9 June 1938 · page 2

At Bega Court on Tuesday before Mr Balmain, Police Magistrate, Herbert Stanley Street, company manager, of Stanley Street, Sydney, proceeded…

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Road Accidents

The Bega District News · Thursday 9 June 1938 · page 6
Also in The South Coast Register

“A bold peasantry, their country’s pride, When once destroyed can never be supplied.”…

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Road Accidents

The Nowra Leader · Friday 10 June 1938 · page 12

"A bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed can ever be supplied."…

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Shocking Fatality Motor Lorry Gl Out of Control Berry Man Killed

The South Coast Register · Thursday 23 June 1938 · page 5

A meeting [?] light when Mr [?]…

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Another Motor Fatality. Motorists Take Wrong Road

The Nowra Leader · Friday 24 June 1938 · page 5

On Wednesday night last a party of young men, including the wife of one man, from Wattamolla and Woodhill, six all told, visited…

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Tragic Accident Motor Lorry Overturns

The Shoalhaven News, Nowra · Wednesday 29 June 1938 · page 11

A tragic accident happened on the Budgong Road on Wednesday night last, as a result of which Mr. Henry James Ellis Abernethy, 27 years of…

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Motor Accident. Man Critically Injured

The Bega District News · Monday 4 July 1938 · page 2

Shortly after 1 o’clock on Friday afternoon Mr W. Hannan, the well-known river fisherman, was returning from town in his Buick sedan,…

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Jack Knight Dies. Victim of Motor Accident

The Bega District News · Thursday 7 July 1938 · page 2

Mr Jack Knight, an old and well-known district identity, died in Bega Hospital on Monday night from injuries sustained when a car driven…

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The Meter Fatality VERDICT of Accidental Death

The Bega District News · Monday 11 July 1938 · page 2

On Thursday Mr Blomfield. depaly Coroner. held and inquest as to the cause of death of John Richard Knight, who died in Bega Hospital…

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Painful Accident

The South Coast Register · Thursday 28 July 1938 · page 2

Mrs. Os. Henry (nee Miss E. Mannell), of Gerringong, met with a painful accident at the week-end, when hot water issuing from a…

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Accident in the Bush. Father Injured. Son's Daring & Sensational Ride

The Nowra Leader · Friday 29 July 1938 · page 2

Improvising a bridle from trace chains, and mounting an unbroken horse, Mr. Stanley Toovey, of Upper Burragorang, the other week, rode…

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Accident

The Nowra Leader · Friday 29 July 1938 · page 9

HORACE HINKLEY, AGED 14, youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Hinkley, of Pyree, met with a painful accident on Tuesday of last week…

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Motors and Motoring Statements After Accidents Take Care to Consider What You Say (From the “Open Road”)

The Shoalhaven News, Nowra · Wednesday 3 August 1938 · page 6

Unexpected troubles experienced by motorists in law courts through statements made in all good faith to police immediately following accidents,…

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Children and Road Accidents (By Lt.-Col. H. A. Youden, D.S.O., V.D., Secretary, Road Safety Council of New South Wales)

The Shoalhaven News, Nowra · Wednesday 3 August 1938 · page 4

The irreparable loss to New South Wales of 72 children under 14 years of age who were killed during the year ended December, 1937, in road…

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Kiah Resident Injured. Mrs T. SHELLEY

The Bega District News · Thursday 4 August 1938 · page 5

While visiting her daughter at Orbost, Mrs Tom Shelley, one of the oldest and best known residents of The Kiah, fell and broke her thigh…

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